Published multiple papers, including several accepted at EMNLP 2024 and ACL 2024; received numerous awards, such as the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2022-2023) and the Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award (June 2022); secured various research grants, including the NSF NAIRR Pilot award (January 2025) and the Agent Benchmark Grant from Open Philanthropy (June 2024).
Research Experience
Led multiple research projects at the University of Minnesota, including collaborations with Thomson Reuters, Naver, Grammarly, and others; organized workshops at international conferences such as the Pluralistic Alignment workshop at NeurIPS 2024.
Education
Passed Ph.D. thesis defense in May 2020; joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar in June 2020, working with Marti A. Hearst.
Background
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, focusing on building human-centric language technologies, with an emphasis on cognitively aligning human and machine thinking, advancing AI as thinking partners.